How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence

sub-Saharan

adjective
  • Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • For the first time, the world is starting to roll out malaria vaccines to children in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Turkson, 76, could be the first ever pope from sub-Saharan Africa, an area where the Church is growing.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • By 2100, half the world’s children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa; of those, two out of five will be Nigerian.
    — Shain Shapiro, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The biggest increases in lost sleep were in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Olivia Rudgard / Bloomberg, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The decrease in aid for sub-Saharan Africa from rich countries last year compared with 2021.
    — Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The second sub-Saharan winning city has shown a steady climb since first appearing on the list three years ago.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • Apartheid is something largely left in the past for the 70 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa that is under the age of 30.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • For instance, sub-Saharan Africa sees 56% more heat waves.
    — Ben Geman, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Hippos, which are native sub-Saharan Africa, can reach weights of up to 4.5 tons and are known to be aggressive.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest global rate of child labor - about 1 in 4 kids work.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 26 June 2025
  • In real terms, defense spending across the world rose by 7.4 percent in the past year, barring the sub-Saharan region of Africa, the think tank said.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That showed the most extreme rains keep happening in sub-Saharan Africa, at least through December 2021, the end of the data.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, 19 countries are unable to make debt payments or are at high risk of reaching that point.
    — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
  • Plans to build the tallest tower in sub-Saharan Africa in Ethiopia have been reignited after a yearlong hiatus.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • For decades, Egypt has been a refuge for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trying to escape war or poverty.
    — Samy Magdy, Fortune Europe, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Death counts have remained low throughout sub-Saharan Africa for most of the pandemic.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Historically, this has been the dietary trend for much of sub-Saharan Africa, but this is starting to change— one egg at a time.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
    — Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
  • The rates are similar across the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and people in this region are being affected at younger ages than those in other parts of the world.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • These are the farmers, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, who are facing the brunt of climate change while contributing almost nothing to it.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Sudan was one of the first sub-Saharan African countries to win its independence.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Native to the savannas and open woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, ostriches have evolved not for flight, but for speed and endurance.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • That's more than the domestic water use of over 330 million people in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • According to a report in The Lancet, up to a third of those premature deaths would be of children, with sub-Saharan Africa likely to be hardest hit.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
  • South Africa is also subject to a new 30% tariff rate, the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to be singled out in the latest round of announcements.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 13 July 2025

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